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No, it isn't. (Was: is wikipedia zero illegal because it violates net neutrality?)
by Mathias Schindler 25 Aug '13

25 Aug '13

hth. Mathias

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The failure of Google, looking for open source alternatives
by Romaine Wiki 24 Aug '13

24 Aug '13

Also the old Google Maps doesn't show the Wikipedia layer any longer. > Do you have a specific article that talks about this? Do remember the new Google Maps is still in beta. It's (still) impossible to use on older computers because it is so slow and laggy - it's possible the WMF could lobby them to keep it around. > Mono

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A proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia
by Denny Vrandečić 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

I have been thinking about this for a while, and now finally managed to write it down as a proposal. Details are on meta on the following link, below is the intro to the proposal: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_proposal_towards_a_multilingual_Wikipedia> I tried to anticipate some possible questions and provide answers on the page. Besides that, I obviously hope that Wikimania could provide a place to start this conversation. And yes, I am aware that the proposal would lead to a very restrictive solution, but imagine what good it already could achieve! And since it is not meant to replace anything, but enrich our current projects... well, read for yourself. Cheers, Denny Wikipedia provides knowledge in more than 200 languages. Whereas a small number of languages are fortunate enough to have a large Wikipedia, many of the language editions are far away from providing a comprehensive encyclopedia by any measure. There are several approaches towards closing this gap, mostly focusing on increasing the number of contributors to the small language editions or to improve the provision of automatic or semi-automatic translations of articles. Both are viable. In the following we present a proposal for a different approach, which is based on the idea of multilingual Wikipedia. Imagine a small extension to the template system, where a template call like *{{F12}}* would not be expanded by a call to the template Template:F12, but rather to Template:F12/en, i.e. the template name with the selected language code of the reader of the page. A template call such as *{{F12:Q64|Q5519|Q183}}* can be expanded by Template:F12/en into *“Berlin is the capital of Germany.”* and by Template:F12/de into *“Berlin ist die Hauptstadt Deutschlands.”* (in the example, the template parameters Q5119, Q64 and Q183 refer to the Wikidata items for capital, Berlin and Germany respectively, which the templates query for the label in the respective language). Sentence by sentence could be created in order to provide for a simple article. That wiki would consist of *content*, i.e. the article pages, possibly just a simple series of template calls, and *frames*, i.e. the templates that lexicalize the parameters of a given template call into a sentence (Note that “sentence” here should not be considered literally. It could be a table, an image, anything). The implementation of the frames can be done in normal wiki template syntax, in Lua, in a novel mechanism, or a mix of these. This would be up to the communities creating them. Read the rest here: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_proposal_towards_a_multilingual_Wikipedia> -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Language Engineering bug triage session for RTL language bugs - Aug 28th 2013, Wednesday 1700 UTC/1000PDT
by Runa Bhattacharjee 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting a bug triage session on Wednesday, August 28th 2013 at 17:00 UTC (10:00 PDT) for some of the bugs that exist in languages written from Right-to-Left (RTL). During this 1 hour session we will be using the etherpad linked below to collaborate. We have already listed some bugs, but please feel free to add more bugs (or file new ones!), and comments about what you’d like to see addressed during the session. You can send questions directly to me on email or IRC (nick: arrbee). Please see below for the event details. Thank you. regards Runa === Event Details === # What: Bug triage session for RTL language bugs # Date: August 28, 2013 (Wednesday) # Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 1000-1100 PDT (Timezone conversion: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130828T1700 ) # IRC Channel: #mediawiki-i18n (Freenode) # Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BugTriage-i18n-2013-08 Questions can be sent to: runa at wikimedia dot org -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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[Job] OpenGLAM Community Manager
by Everton Zanella Alvarenga 22 Aug '13

22 Aug '13

The Open Knowledge Foundation is looking for a part time (20 hours per week) community manager to help build our growing network of cultural heritage professionals, researchers and hackers working to open up data and content held by galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs) on the web. Role description: The Open Knowledge Foundation is recruiting a community manager with experience in the field of open cultural heritage data and/or the Digital Humanities to work on the OpenGLAM initiative and Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana project. Dead line: Applications close on 16th September 2013. More details at: http://okfn.org/jobs/#OpenGLAMCommunityManager I think it would be useful to share with your local Wikimedia groups, mainly those good in GLAM activities. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKF Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org

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Fwd: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate: Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere
by Samuel Klein 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

The Berkman Center just came out with a report on the public discussions surrounding the SOPA-PIPA actions; drawing on the Media Cloud work by Yochai Benkler and others. It provides context for the discussions on the English Wikipedia, and captures the differences between the grassroots and top-down decisions by different organizations and media channels who took part in the blackout. An interactive time-visual shows how the conversation was driven at different times by different communities: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/mediacloud/2013/mapping_sopa_pipa/# SJ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Publication Release: July 25 Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate Dear Friends and Colleagues, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce the release of a new publication from the Media Cloud project, Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate, authored by Yochai Benkler, Hal Roberts, Rob Faris, Alicia Solow-Niederman, and Bruce Etling. Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate >From the abstract: In this paper, we use a new set of online research tools to develop a detailed study of the public debate over proposed legislation in the United States that was designed to give prosecutors and copyright holders new tools to pursue suspected online copyright violations. Our study applies a mixed-methods approach by combining text and link analysis with human coding and informal interviews to map the evolution of the controversy over time and to analyze the mobilization, roles, and interactions of various actors. This novel, data-driven perspective on the dynamics of the networked public sphere supports an optimistic view of the potential for networked democratic participation, and offers a view of a vibrant, diverse, and decentralized networked public sphere that exhibited broad participation, leveraged topical expertise, and focused public sentiment to shape national public policy. We also offer an interactive visualization that maps the evolution of a public controversy by collecting time slices of thousands of sources, then using link analysis to assess the progress of the debate over time. We used the Media Cloud platform to depict media sources (“nodes”, which appear as circles on the map with different colors denoting different media types). This visualization tracks media sources and their linkages within discrete time slices and allows users to zoom into the controversy to see which entities are present in the debate during a given period as well as who is linking to whom at any point in time. The authors wish to thank the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundation for their generous support of this research and of the development of the Media Cloud platform. About Media Cloud Media Cloud, a joint project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Center for Civic Media at MIT, is an open source, open data platform that allows researchers to answer complex quantitative and qualitative questions about the content of online media. Using Media Cloud, academic researchers, journalism critics, and interested citizens can examine what media sources cover which stories, what language different media outlets use in conjunction with different stories, and how stories spread from one media outlet to another. We encourage interested readers to explore Media Cloud. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University was founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. For more information, visit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/.

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HTTPS for logged-in users delayed. New date: August 28
by Sumana Harihareswara 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

This is a forward from the wikitech-ambassadors list. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS is now updated with the new date. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: HTTPS for logged in users delayed. New date: August 28 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:30:51 -0700 From: Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org> Reply-To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects <wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects <wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi everyone, After assessing the current readiness (or lack thereof) of our HTTPS code, we've decided to postpone the deployment for a week. We have a number of things that we'd like to get cleaner resolution on: * Use of GeoIP vs enabling on per wiki basis * Use of a preference vs login form checkbox vs hidden option vs sensible default * How interactions with login.wikimedia.org will work * Validation of our HTTPS test methodology The new plan is to deploy on Wednesday, August 28 between 20:00 UTC and 23:00 UTC. Prior to that, we plan on having a very limited deployment to our test wikis, and we're also planning to deploy to mediawiki.org. Assuming this is sorted out and we have made our test deployments by end of day Monday, August 26, we should have time to validate our assumptions and give people time to see the new system in action. More info is (or will be) available here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS (or here if you prefer: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS ) Thanks everyone for your patience. Rob _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors

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A Survey on Science Reporting
by Fred Bauder 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

If you write or add to articles based on journal articles you might complete this survey: https://lsucommunications.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0PTVlA7OUCLqkyV Fred

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Block evasion might be a federal offense
by Martijn Hoekstra 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

http://feedly.com/k/14WeLcY I wish I was grossly misrepresenting the situation here. If I am, please do set me straight.

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Breaking bots // HTTPS for logged in users on Wednesday August 21st
by Fae 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

On 21 August 2013 07:49, Terry Chay <tchay(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: ... > Luckily, the standard for the Movement is consensus, not catering to every extremist view with 100% buy-in. As a Commons user responsible for over 2.5 million edits, I would hope that the WMF do not label or quickly dismiss me as an "extremist" if I raise some questions about this notification. I am concerned about how many valuable bot activities a mandated move to https might break. Some will be fixed by operators such as myself changing account preferences to force an opt-out or re-writing code, however many useful bot activities have semi-retired operators, particularly on Commons, and some are bound to just never be fixed and their value will be lost. In planning this change, has some support effort been allocated to fixing or re-hosting the bots that break (such as taking the option of 'remotely' setting community-identified useful bots to opt-out of https, at least for a test period, rather than forcing an opt-in) and has there been a survey of this impact? Though I agree we don't expect "100% buy-in", as an active volunteer, batch uploader and bot writer, I would have expected to have been given a friendly, non-confrontational and relaxed opportunity to raise and consider these issues in a RFC or other consensus building discussion on my home project and engage in discussion there, rather than, apparently, no buy-in needed from us unpaid volunteers and content creators. Thanks, Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm

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